Hamish McDonald is an Australian
journalist
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and author of several books.
He held a fellowship at the American think tank the Woodrow Wilson Centre in 2014.
Career
McDonald has worked as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like
India
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,
Japan
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,
Indonesia
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,
Hong Kong
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and
China
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, where he was a correspondent based in
Beijing
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from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the
economic reforms
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.
He was the political editor for the ''
Far Eastern Economic Review
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'' and the foreign editor for the ''
Sydney Morning Herald
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''.
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In 2005, he won the ]Walkley Award
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for newspaper feature writing for his article "What's Wrong With Falun Gong", which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong
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religious movement in China.
Bibliography
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* ''The Polyester Prince
''The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani'' is an unauthorised biography of the Indian business tycoon and founder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Dhirubhai Ambani by Hamish McDonald, an Australian journalist and author. This boo ...
'', 1998: This unauthorized biography
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of Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002), popularly known as Dhirubhai Ambani, was an Indian business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries. Ambani took Reliance public in 1977 and was worth US$2.9 billion in 2002 upon hi ...
never went to print in India after the publishers were threatened with legal action by the Ambani family.
* ''Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra'', 2001: Co-authored with Desmond Ball
Desmond John Ball (20 May 1947 – 12 October 2016) was an Australian academic and expert on defence and security. He was credited with successfully advising the US against nuclear escalation in the 1970s.
Background
Des Ball attended the Aust ...
* ''Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military & Violence in East Timor in 1999'', 2002
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* ''Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud'', 2010: The book was published in India as ''Ambani and Sons''.
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* ''A War of Words'', University of Queensland Press, 2014.
* ''Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century'', St. Martin's Press, 2015
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian journalists
Griffith Review people
The Sydney Morning Herald people
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